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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 7.39
‘কৃষ্ণদাস’-নামে এই সরল ব্রাহ্মণ ।
ইঁহো সঙ্গে করি’ লহ, ধর নিবেদন ॥ ৩৯ ॥
‘kṛṣṇadāsa’-nāme ei sarala brāhmaṇa
iṅho saṅge kari’ laha, dhara nivedana
Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu continued, “Here is a simple brāhmaṇa named Kṛṣṇadāsa. Please accept him and take him with You. That is My request.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu asks the Lord to accept a simple brāhmaṇa named Kṛṣṇadāsa as His companion.
This brāhmaṇa, known as Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa, accompanied Śrī Caitanya to South India and later to Bengal.
He is not the other Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa, who is one of the twelve gopālas and a great devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. The purport cautions against taking them to be the same person.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Expansive compassion. The Lord carries nāma and mercy from village to village, including deliverance of Vāsudeva.
The mood of Madhya 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
When He proposed to travel to South India alone, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu gave Him a brāhmaṇa assistant named Kṛṣṇadāsa. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was beginning His tour, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya gave Him four sets of clothes and requested Him to see Rāmānanda Rāya, who was residing at that time on the bank of the river Godāvarī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 7
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I careful to distinguish people who share the same name?
Write a brief note distinguishing the traveling brāhmaṇa Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa from the Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa who is one of the twelve gopālas.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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